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What variables are confounded with the independent variable? Design a true experiment that would address Dr. Smith's original question.
Devise a way to test your hypothesis using a singlecase design. What do you expect to find if your hypothesis is correct?
You decide that playing a radio while you are gone might help. How might you determine whether this treatment is effective?
Describe the interrupted time series and the control series designs. Distinguish between longitudinal, cross-sectional, and sequential methods.
Describe the nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Why is this a quasi-experimental design rather than a true experiment?
Why does having a control group eliminate the problems associated with the one-group pretest-posttest design?
What is a multiple baseline design? Why is it used? Distinguish between multiple baseline designs across subjects, across behaviors, and across situations.
What are some plausible alternative explanations for this finding; that is, what variables other than wine could explain the finding?
What type of relationship is proposed (e.g., positive linear, negative linear)? How might you investigate the hypothesis using the experimental method?
What are three possible cause-and-effect relationships for this non experimental observation?
How might the use of one or the other lead to different conclusions from experimental results regarding who helps more, males or females?
What if an outgoing person has a job that requires them to meet very few people? They may be considered (incorrectly) shy by this operational definition.
What is meant by the problem of direction of cause and effect and the third-variable problem?
What is the difference between an independent variable and a dependent variable? Distinguish between laboratory and field experiments.
Define operational definition of a variable. Give at least two operational definitions of the variables you thought of in the previous review question.
What is a variable? List at least fi ve diff erent variables and then describe at least two levels of each variable. For example, age is a variable.
Should people who are observed in field experiments debriefed? Write a paragraph supporting the pro position and another paragraph supporting the con position.
What ethical considerations, if any, do you perceive in this field experiment? Is there any deception involved?
What are the ethical issues raised by this procedure? Compare your reactions to that procedure with your reactions to an analogous.
Discuss the ethical issues raised by the experiment. What alternative methods for studying this problem (reactions to death) might you suggest?
Summarize the ethical procedures for research with animals. Describe how you would proceed to identify plagiarism in a writing assignment.
What is the diff erence between no risk and minimal risk research activities? What is an Institutional Review Board?
Why is informed consent an ethical principle? What are the potential problems with obtaining fully informed consent?
How can researchers weigh the need to conduct research against the need for ethical procedures?
Identify a consistent behavior pattern in yourself or somebody close to you (e.g., you consistently get into an argument with your sister on Friday nights).